I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

The future belongs to crowds.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.